Eldamo : Sindarin : gwathren

S. gwathren adj. “shadowy, dim” (Category: Shade, Shadow)

S. gwathren, adj. “shadowy, dim” (Category: Shade, Shadow): G. mortha “dim”

A word meaning “shadowy, dim” appearing in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor of the late 1960s, the adjectival form of gwath “shadow” (VT42/9).

References ✧ VT42/9

Glosses

“shadowy, dim” ✧ VT42/9

Variations

gwathren ✧ VT42/9

Inflections

gwethrin

plural

✧ VT42/9

Elements

gwath	“shadow, dim light”
#-ren	“adjective suffix”

Element In

S. Ered Wethrin “Mountains of Shadow, (lit.) Shadowy Mountains”

Derivations

< √WATH “*shade” ✧ VT42/9; VT42/9

Phonetic Developments

√WATH > gwathren	[watʰrina] > [waθrina] > [gwaθrina] > [gwaθrena] > [gwaθren]	✧ VT42/9
√WATH > gwethrin	[watʰrini] > [waθrini] > [gwaθrini] > [gweθrini] > [gwaθrin]	✧ VT42/9